Classic bike MOT question

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GuzziPaul wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:52 pm
I changed my '77 Le Mans to "Historic vehicle" in January '78 and taxed it for £0 in March without an MOT. You still need to apply for road tax it just costs £0.
Can you set up a direct debit for that? :D
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The Spin Doctor wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:58 am
Can you set up a direct debit for that? :D
DVLA phoned me, through their Nigerian sub-office, to help set that up.
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The Spin Doctor wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:58 am
GuzziPaul wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:52 pm
I changed my '77 Le Mans to "Historic vehicle" in January '78 and taxed it for £0 in March without an MOT. You still need to apply for road tax it just costs £0.
Can you set up a direct debit for that? :D

Why wouldn't you be able to? I've set up DDs on credit cards I don't use. You are authorising an organisation to take funds from your bank account when it suits them to.
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Re: Classic bike MOT question

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cheb wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:51 pm
The Spin Doctor wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:58 am
GuzziPaul wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 12:52 pm
I changed my '77 Le Mans to "Historic vehicle" in January '78 and taxed it for £0 in March without an MOT. You still need to apply for road tax it just costs £0.
Can you set up a direct debit for that? :D

Why wouldn't you be able to? I've set up DDs on credit cards I don't use. You are authorising an organisation to take funds from your bank account when it suits them to.
"You are hereby authorised to take £0 per month".
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Re: Classic bike MOT question

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My sugga didnt require an MOT but if ever a vehicle needed one it was this one 3000kg put a big strain on, even for volvo, very primitive brakes. I remember a chap at a classic car show leaping in front of it as I was arriving it was all Icould do not to RUN HIM OVER. they (the brakes) were of a differernt era, no servo and very long throws on the mechanical linkage to the master cylinder, no dual circuit and poor pad material with dust filled drums made for a few white knucklestops. huge fun though.